attaquer
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian attaccare. Doublet of attacher.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editattaquer (transitive)
- to attack
- Synonym: assaillir
- La Russie a attaqué l’Ukraine avec des missiles.
- Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles.
- Ce livre attaque la position de Marx.
- This book attacks Marx's position.
- to diminish; to spoil; to erode
- Synonyms: ronger, détériorer
- La rouille attaque le fer.
- Rust erodes iron.
- 1952, Frantz Fanon, “Introduction”, in Peau noire, masques blancs [Black Skin, White Masks], Paris, France: Éditions du Seuil, page 9:
- Mais le fait, pour moi, de me sentir étranger au monde du schizophrène ou à celui de l’impuissant sexuel n’attaque en rien leur réalité.
- But the fact that I feel a stranger in the world of the schizophrenic, or the world of a sexually impotent man, in no way diminishes their realness.
- to begin; to undertake (an enterprise, an endeavor, a task)
- Synonyms: entreprendre, commencer
- Je vais attaquer mes devoirs.
- I'm going to start doing my homework.
- (sailing) to approach (a shore)
Conjugation
editConjugation of attaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | attaquer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | attaquant /a.ta.kɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | attaqué /a.ta.ke/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | attaque /a.tak/ |
attaques /a.tak/ |
attaque /a.tak/ |
attaquons /a.ta.kɔ̃/ |
attaquez /a.ta.ke/ |
attaquent /a.tak/ |
imperfect | attaquais /a.ta.kɛ/ |
attaquais /a.ta.kɛ/ |
attaquait /a.ta.kɛ/ |
attaquions /a.ta.kjɔ̃/ |
attaquiez /a.ta.kje/ |
attaquaient /a.ta.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | attaquai /a.ta.ke/ |
attaquas /a.ta.ka/ |
attaqua /a.ta.ka/ |
attaquâmes /a.ta.kam/ |
attaquâtes /a.ta.kat/ |
attaquèrent /a.ta.kɛʁ/ | |
future | attaquerai /a.ta.kʁe/ |
attaqueras /a.ta.kʁa/ |
attaquera /a.ta.kʁa/ |
attaquerons /a.ta.kʁɔ̃/ |
attaquerez /a.ta.kʁe/ |
attaqueront /a.ta.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | attaquerais /a.ta.kʁɛ/ |
attaquerais /a.ta.kʁɛ/ |
attaquerait /a.ta.kʁɛ/ |
attaquerions /a.ta.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attaqueriez /a.ta.kə.ʁje/ |
attaqueraient /a.ta.kʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | attaque /a.tak/ |
attaques /a.tak/ |
attaque /a.tak/ |
attaquions /a.ta.kjɔ̃/ |
attaquiez /a.ta.kje/ |
attaquent /a.tak/ |
imperfect2 | attaquasse /a.ta.kas/ |
attaquasses /a.ta.kas/ |
attaquât /a.ta.ka/ |
attaquassions /a.ta.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
attaquassiez /a.ta.ka.sje/ |
attaquassent /a.ta.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | attaque /a.tak/ |
— | attaquons /a.ta.kɔ̃/ |
attaquez /a.ta.ke/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → German: attackieren
- → Romanian: ataca
Further reading
edit- “attaquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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